If you want to dispute this, or if you want to know how
'café noisette' became the 'word of the week,' you
should read the unofficial and unauthorized account of last
Thursday's weekly
'Club' meeting - in case you haven't already read it.
Hit the hyperlink to see what happened.

The
Café Metropole Club Membership Card

For those of you reading this page for the first time,
let me point out that the possession of the membership card
is so unobligatory, I don't know why I even mention it. For
those of you who have read this page before, forget it.

However, the actual card, as reproduced here,
potentially contains millions of vibrant colors; far more
than any standard computer system set of only 256 dull and
boring colors.

Printing it in black and white is therefore highly
unrecommended. In mere black and white, it looks like some
scrap ripped out of an out-of-register brochure for sunny,
beachside holidays in Maidenhead.

For 'virtual' or real Café Metropole Club members
who have come in late you will note that this is a
'virtual' membership card. If you want to
carry one around with you - perhaps to prove that you
belong to an exclusive* club in Paris - you will have to
make a print of it; in full color, if possible.

*'Exclusive' in this sense means that it is the only
Café Metropole Club in Paris that accepts anybody as
members, and their pets if they are birds. People from
other planets or star systems are requested to not use the
card. If you have not had actual contacts with such people,
there is no need to mention it.

The Whole History of
the Café Metropole Club

With its ninth meeting behind it, the 'Whole History' of
the Café Metropole Club has gotten to an almost
mythic length, much too long to repeat. It is therefore,
hereby, suppressed. Older versions of its 'History' do
remain online, somewhere in ' All
Past Issues.'

The Café Metropole Club Is
Good-Value For You

The 'Club' is outstanding value for what it costs but it
has no actual real or virtual benefits, except for being
free. Its sole purpose is to offer an opportunity for the
readers of Metropole to meet its 'Ed' at its weekly
meetings - or see him reading the paper if you choose not
to attend. This has not happened almost once.

The club's meetings are held in the centrally-located
café La Corona. This café has drink, tobacco
products, post-cards and food, which includes French-style
hot dogs. Other than warning you about how big one of these
may be when served, I only wish to add that La Corona does
not have any deep-fried Mars bars on its menu, with or
without chlorpromazine.

'Virtual' membership is not only permitted, but
encouraged - no one is excluded from membership by failure
to be in Paris. Possession of the now somewhat aged but
still colorful 'virtual' membership card is not obligatory
if you do not have color printer.

For some weeks now I have been saying that the reading
the club's online magazine, 'Metropole Paris' is not
necessary, as some members have proved.

This non-policy has changed to one that is much more
positive. Be darn sure to read Metropole next Thursday for
the latest news of the club's latest meeting. If you are
having a relaxing siesta then, wake up!

La Corona has a small 'salle' beside the bar and a large
'salle' behind the bar. There is a small terrace on the Rue
de l'Amiral Coligny side, which faces west; and a big
terrace on the Quai de Louvre side, which faces south. The
club meetings are held at the far end of the big 'salle,'
where there is little danger of falling in the Seine.

When you enter the bar area of La Corona you will not
immediately see any club activity. To find it, go around
the left side of the bar; away from the 'tabac' section of
the café and into the big room behind.

If you are unfamiliar with bars, La Corona's has a zinc
top and has beer handles sticking up from it like antlers.
Near the cash register, you might see a little wire stand
holding hard-boiled eggs. Go left past the eggs and turn
right to find the 'club.'